Issues in Luke-Acts : : Selected Essays / / ed. by Sean A. Adams, Michael Pahl.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Sean A.,; Crowe, Brandon D.,; Crowe, Brandon,; Dicken, Frank,; Hurtado, Larry W.,; Keene, Thomas,; Keene, Tommy,; Litwak, Kenneth D.,; Litwak, Kenneth,; Padilla, Osvaldo,; Pahl, Michael W.,; Peterson, David G.,; Peterson, David,; Roth, Dieter T.,; Roth, Dieter,; Shuve, Karl,; Spencer, F. Scott,; Toney, Carl N.,; Toney, Carl,; Verheyden, Joseph,
• HerausgeberIn: Adams, Sean A.,; Pahl, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Handbooks
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (356 p.)

This volume provides an introduction and engagement with the major critical issues in the study of Luke-Acts. As the study of Acts has become, once again, one of the major areas of focus within New Testament scholarship, this collection of essays presents an orientation to the major issues of Luke-Acts study, while providing fresh scholarship by senior scholars. This holistic overture addresses fundamental questions such as authorship, dating, textual concerns, sources, speeches and literary form(s).

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Contributors -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Author and Date of Luke-Acts: Exploring the Options -- The Unity of Luke-Acts: One Work, One Author, One Purpose? -- Text of Luke and Acts: Witnesses, Features, and the Significance of the Textual Traditions -- The Sources for Luke and Acts: Where Did Luke Get His Material (and Why Does it Matter)? -- The Genre of Luke and Acts: The State of the Question -- The Narrative of Luke-Acts: Getting to Know the Savior God -- The Use of the Old Testament in Luke-Acts: Luke’s Scriptural Story of the “Things Accomplished among Us” -- The Speeches in Acts: Historicity, Theology, and Genre -- The Pneumatology of Luke-Acts: The Spirit of Prophecy Unleashed -- Christology in Acts: Jesus in Early Christian Belief and Practice -- Paul in Acts: The Prophetic Portrait of Paul -- The Patristic Reception of Luke and Acts: Scholarship, Theology, and Moral Exhortation in the Homilies of Origen and Chrysostom -- Luke-Acts and “Early Catholicism”: Eschatological and Ecclesiological Trajectories in the Early Church -- Index of Scripture and Ancient Writings -- Index of Authors